A Trip to the Attic 002

All images from the March 12, 1945 issue of Time Magazine. I wasn't even going to bother going through this one, but there's some pretty cool stuff in there.

Are re-caps a forgotten part of the "green" economy?


Purple Mountains.


Boris Artzybasheff! One of my favorite illustrators.


Bohn Aluminum always had great space-age advertisements:

Postcards, Connecticut

View of Mill River from East Rock.



West Rock, New Haven.



Castle Craig, Hubbard Park, Meriden.

A Trip to the Attic 001

This week's trip to the attic yields the following magazine cover scans:

A Boston garden catalog from 1947 -


Contract Bridge Made Easy -


A Century of Progress, Chicago World's Fair, 1933. Kiwanis Magazine -



The American Girl, August 1935 -

Focus on MicroComputers, 1979

Here are some scans from Popular Electronics Magazine, November 1979. Not a mouse in sight.

That's the front cover, above. Here's the inside cover, an Apple ad:

The Casio Melody 80. I want one!


Ever notice how every computer ad from the '70s - '90s is pretty much a nuclear family huddled around a table, with one of them pointing at something on the monitor?

This Compucolor looks pretty sweet for 1979...

Good old Heathkit. The All-In-One H89 model. Probably the last computer to come out of Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Some PCs from Ohio Scientific:


The Exidy Sorcerer. They just don't name 'em like that anymore...


Some random images from the issue.


That's all for now. Maybe I'll find some pics from the '80s next time!

Marble's Instruments #4

Picked this one up last October. Nice low action and funky tone from the no-name pickup (maybe a DeArmond?). The next is set with a dry-wall screw...

Comic Scholars Through the Ages

Comic Scholars Through the Ages!

Photos from the UCLA Library Digital Collections.

Snips from the Garden

Chili Peppers and Cherry Tomatoes.

Country Music is Universal

Way down south in the Fertile Crescent.
From The Boston Globe, August 23rd, 2006:

Suspicious Device

From The Boston Globe, Tuesday August 15, 2006.

Not much gets past these guys.














It was only a laptop after all.















I feel safer already!

Alfred E. Neuman Playing the Fiddle

More Snips From the Garden

Here's a few more from the garden at the end of July. Cclockwise, Black-Eyed Susan, Queen Anne's Lace, a group scan and Tiger Lily.

Marble's Instruments #3

One of my two main guitars, this one is a ca. 1955-56 Gibson LG-2. I think the LG stands for "little guitar"? It's beat to hell, but it's all honest wear and it has a wonderfully woody sound. Amazing volume for such a small guitar, and it's incredibly light. A low-end Gibson that just delivers. I bought it at a local guitar show a few years back; there were other LG's at the show in better condition, but this one just had the tone.

Snips from the Garden

I was going to call this entry "Specimens from the Garden", but that just seemed so...academic. As always, click on the picture for a larger version.

Marble's Instruments #2

Here's a Vega archtop acoustic of an unknown vintage. My guess is late '40s early '50s, but that's just a guess. The tuning buttons are disolving, so I know that should narrow down the date. Any info is appreciated. Anyhow, the guitar plays great, (it has a real nice neck), but kind of a muted sound. I really should fix those tuners.